Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[avc8130]

It works for me but it might not be for every one. If you think about it, it cuts down on the handling by hand a good bit. Stack it on a pallet after it is split and take it to its drying place. Then when the time comes to burn it you can take it right to the house to be unloaded. I know this is not the most efficient way but it beats the way I did it before. Load the wood on truck, haul it out, stack it, get a wagon and bring the wood in, then stack it in the basement. Stacking the wood on a pallet like is really not any more time consuming than stacking it on the ground. I know some people frame the pallet up but like you said the pallets are not as stackable. I also think with the pallet framed up the frame work would be in the way for stacking the wood on. Monday I rearranged/ moved 16 pallets off wood. I can't imagine how long it would have taken to move that much wood by hand.



I like the idea of the firewood bags but they are too expensive. I have been thinking about way to make palatalizing more efficient. I have been thinking about something kinda like this but a more simple design and smaller scale.

 

[Locoweed]

The roots much have had a rot condition in them? Not much of a root ball came up with that tree. Trees do gobble up rocks, I try not to cut down too low.

Root rot was my thought also

 

[arrow]

Interesting avc. Can you get a bit more detailed such as affixing the wire or if you are throwing the wood in as it looks stacked in the picture. Thanks

 

[arrow]

I never miss an opportunity to show some pics

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And here are a couple little videos when I was learning to use my new self releasing snatch block on right angled winches like those above. Saves a lot of walking back and forth resetting the snatch block.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyvn5k5hokg

http://youtu.be/yosJrGCZo8o

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Always loved your snow pics Gordon.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Arrow - I have a neighbor who does the pallet thing. He does a little different. He uses heavy woven wire sheep fencing on two opposite sides of the pallet. Lets it flop open and stacks the wood on the pallet. Then he folds up the sheep wire against the wood and fastens both sides together on each end with about three or four pieces of plain wire. So two sides of the pallet have woven wire and two have a ladder of straight wire. Easy to open by removing one wire at a time as you empty the pallet. He stacks them two high. I forget the dimensions but it is a standard pallet and high enough for 1/4 cord per pallet.

 

[arrow]

Arrow - I have a neighbor who does the pallet thing. He does a little different. He uses heavy woven wire sheep fencing on two opposite sides of the pallet. Lets it flop open and stacks the wood on the pallet. Then he folds up the sheep wire against the wood and fastens both sides together on each end with about three or four pieces of plain wire. So two sides of the pallet have woven wire and two have a ladder of straight wire. Easy to open by removing one wire at a time as you empty the pallet. He stacks them two high. I forget the dimensions but it is a standard pallet and high enough for 1/4 cord per pallet.

Thanks Gordon
Currently, I stack my wood in 110' single file rows right from the splitter. I split 3 years in advance. After the row of wood sits outside for two years, I then move all of the wood to a woodshed by pushing the piles into the bucket and this wood holder attached to the back of the tractor. I then of course, restack it all in the wood shed. Now I know that to palletize the wood is far more efficient as one is only touching the wood once. My patience level is so shallow, i cannot bring myself to mess with pallets. As non sensical as it sounds, there is something less frustrating to me doing it my Neanderthal way. I know it's dumb, but I continue to do it anyway saying about a million times, "boy this is stupid" It's as dumb as not wanting to sit in traffic even if the way is shorter and you get there sooner, but preferring to take the long way just because I keep moving. A bit pathetic I think.

 

[catskinner]

Used the old Ford during the drier times, used the Kioti today, soft and wet, the 4x4 let me work without making a mess.

 

[94BULLITT]

That looks like it works good. I'd like to come up with a system that I could sit a frame around a pallet then wrap around the frame, throw wood in and lift the frame off. I haven't thought of a way to make it work.

 

[TomSeller]

http://s878.photobucket.com/user/avc8130/media/Boiler/20141108_134445_zpsuq4pux06.jpg.html

In the background it looks like two pallets as sides nailed onto a bottom pallet? Maybe a top board to hold them together?

 

[Gordon Gould]

Thanks Gordon
Currently, I stack my wood in 110' single file rows right from the splitter. I split 3 years in advance. After the row of wood sits outside for two years, I then move all of the wood to a woodshed by pushing the piles into the bucket and this wood holder attached to the back of the tractor. I then of course, restack it all in the wood shed. Now I know that to palletize the wood is far more efficient as one is only touching the wood once. My patience level is so shallow, i cannot bring myself to mess with pallets. As non sensical as it sounds, there is something less frustrating to me doing it my Neanderthal way. I know it's dumb, but I continue to do it anyway saying about a million times, "boy this is stupid" It's as dumb as not wanting to sit in traffic even if the way is shorter and you get there sooner, but preferring to take the long way just because I keep moving. A bit pathetic I think.

I am a lot like you. I don't mind handling wood. It has always just been a way of life. I handle it enough times that when I put a piece in the stove I can remember what tree it came from. I run my wood 2-1/2 years ahead. I have two years worth in the shed and a pile(s) of tree length ready to split next spring when it is to muddy for much else but the weather is nice. I skid out trees in the snow. Split and rough stack it on the landing in spring. Let it air dry for the summer then move it into the shed and stack it before the fall gets wet. I bring it from the shed into the basement where the stove is a wheelbarrow at a time and stack about a weeks worth there.
I finally bought a used splitter a year and a half ago. Hated the thought of giving in to old age. But it has saved me a lot of time and made it easier.